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No; 374,644. Patentgd Deg. 13, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFF-ICEQ' WILLIAM HALES TURNER, OF TUNSTALL, COUNTYOF STAFFORD ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING DESIGNS ON PAPER TO BE APPLIED T0 EARTHENWARE, dc.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 374,644, dated December13, 1887.

Application filed February 5, 1887. Serial No. 226,710. (No model.)Patented in England November 24, 1886, No. 15,340.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALES TUR- NER, a subject of the Queen ofEngland, re-

siding at Tunstall, in the county of Stafford,

of paper or other substance, and is particularly adapted for printingpat-terns to be subsequently transferred to china or earthenware.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of the endof the machine from which the paper is supplied. Fig. 2 is a transversesection thereof, and Fig. 3 a detail of the apparatus for supplying thecolor to the printing-roller.

A A are two vertical end frames rigidly connected by the rods B. 7 Onbrackets G is supported a rod or beam around which is wound a roll orseries of rolls of paper, D, capable of revolving independently of eachother.

E are rollers upon which the patterns are engraved. These rollers may beeither of copper, copper coated with steel, or steel only. Any number ofsuch rollers may be mounted side by side, the whole being hollow andheated by hot air, gas, or other suitable means for raising them to aconsiderable heat. On the sleeves E, which constitute the axis of therollers, are mounted worm-wheels E, with which gear the worms F, theshafts F of which are driven by bevel-wheels F mounted on the shafts Fand on a lay-shaft, F to which rotation is imparted by means ofchange-speed pulleys G and G, the latter being mounted on the maindriving-shaft G The means of imparting the rotation to the rollers may,however, be varied to suit circumstances. As each of the rollers E hasits own drivinggear, they revolve independently with each other, and anyone or more of them may be stopped without interfering with theremainder by throwing the worm out of gear with the wheel with which itengages if the gear shown in the drawings be used.

Under each roller E is a roller, H, similarly ers E and H passes anendless traveling band,

J, preferably of milled flannel, which passes around guide-rollers J, Jand J, the latter acting as a stretching-roller, adjustable by means ofscrews J bevel-wheels J gearing with other bevel-wheels, J, on shaft Jwhich may be turned by hand-wheel J The color for each roller E iscontained in a trough or vessel, K, the whole series being heated in asimilar manner to the rollers. In each trough revolves a heated roller,K", the said roller revolving in contact with and supplying color to theprinting-roller E, the surplus being removed by doctors or scrapers Kattached to hollow metal blocks or casings K also heated as abovedescribed.-

K is a roll which revolves in contact with the roll E, and cleans offany lint or grease left on it from the size of the paper.

The paper after leaving the roll D passes around heated glass rollers orrods L, which iron it or remove any creases, after which it passesbetween a pair of rollers, M and M, the former of which revolves incontact with a dip-roller, N, partially immersed in a trough, N,containing size or other liquid, which is transferred by the roller M tothe paper. Af-

ter being damped or sized, the paper travels along with the endless bandunder a drying apparatus, P, preferably steam heated, and thence betweenthe rollers E and H, where it receives the impression of the pattern ordesign, the length of contact with the roller E being increased by meansof the guide-rollers J so as to allow time for the proper application ofthe coloring-matter. Leaving the print- 'ing-roller, the paper iscarried along with the endless sheet underneath rollers R, which rest onthe margin at each side thereof, and is carried off upon an endlessband, S, from which it is taken and applied directly to the potteryware.Instead of sizing the paper in the printing-machine, it may be sizedduring the process of manufacture; but when the sizing less bandsurrounding the plain roller and is done in the printing-machine theapparatus 1 partially encircling the printing-roller, substantially asand for the purpose specified; t 5

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of thetwo subscribing witnesses.

described is employed.

I claim The machine described, consisting of a printing-roller, a plainroller below the same, a color-trough and roller adjacent to theprinting-roller, a doctor acting on the said printing roller, and glasssmoothing rollers. or rods, all constructed to be heated, and an end-WILLIAM HALES TURNER.

Wituesses:

. ARTHUR P. LLEWELLYN,

SAML. DAVIES,

Solicitors, Tunstall, England.

